The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-10-14

not sinned against civilization in fighting to be
free, we think we have a right to public recog-
You kaow not the ordeal we have passed
through in centuries of persecution. In all that
time our people have no record of a
liberty. For forty years. years. ' England nu'n hns
systematically carried on the work Of ex-
patriation. England's territorial aristocracy
Is threatened by our movement and thinks
expatriation the only escape from the danger.
Refusing to acquiesce in cowardly subservience
i one Of our crimes; and immigration becomes
patriasion Is carried out. No country stands
more in need OF labor than ours. But England's
policy drives it across the Atlantic Tor the en-
ployment it is denied at home. WI arc driven
to poverty by laws expressly passed against our
Misunderstanding AN atrociously unjust and COW
tious would be right, but no economic necessity
exists for 1t. but the reverse. Ireiand's thou
sands of acres are suffering for want Of ~cultiva-
ton. When labor reaches your shores it is i'm
poverished. It secfcs employment in Eastern
cities, completes wit. You and conflicts with your
working classes. England is really doing her
best to reduce your wage rate to the low rate
prevailing there. The classes who are ruling and
running Ireland are also trying to drive English
born labor abroad. England is thus killing two
birds with one stone, Kidding herself Of the
Celtic element and reducing your workingnen
to her level OF wages. The workers claim that
tho idle and do-nothing classes should go. Jap
plause.l An hereditary aristocracy is an enor,n-
GUS evil that must be swept away. Should you
give official expression against the coercion pol
ICY you may offend the aristocracy, but not the
toiling millions of the old world. Victory for
labor in Ireland would help you
9 Soa cannot a ne snd,fre1 for y Sq 31r wr support i;
workers anywhere. In Europe we have enemies
in the government: You are better of. The
government is loyal to you, and you to it. The
eyes of the laboring classes Of Europe are upon
you and this convention. The spectacle Of your
organization. loyal to the constitution of your
government, gives US pride and pleasure. We
view 1t with interest and expectancy the classes
view it with alarm. In no part of the world
have You moro powerful enemies than in Lon
don. The story OF the forcing the opium
trade upon China, the sutfcrinss of en-
slayed India, the bombardment of Alex
andria. are samples of what has been
done in the interest of English capitalists.
It is the same power doing all this that is ruin.
Ing Ireland. T. fears The Irish policy much; but
ltsh labor more. What a scene is presented to
the friend Of human liberality to-day in the
jury trial is abolished, the rights Of the press
are trampled under foot to-day in our Irish
home. Irish cabins are wrecked by crowbar
brigades, English bayonets driving the poor from
their cots, murder takes place at Mitchellstown
and editors are imprisoned because they strive
to speak boldly and truly for human liberty.
Irish Nationalists are entitled in justice to pur-
sue the course they do. Scotland and England
largely sympathize with us and we are war
ranted in believing that here in the home of
freedom. where labor's rights are respected and
labor problems solved rs never heretofore, We
shall not be denied tho sympathy from your
| gfauu ORGANIZATION tnlt our necessities and
caiamities justly claim. l thank you for this
opportunity. II 1t is not impertinent, I pray you
be harmonious and wise, torbearing and tolerant,
your friends have the happiness of knowing thai
good has been accomplished
RousING RESOLUTIONS
A vote of thanks was xtended Mr.. Davitt
with q will, and Mr.. Powderly Then offered
these ringing resolutions:
Whereas, The knights of Labor, in loyal ad-
herence to the principles enunciated IN the
declaration of the independence of the United
States, believing that every other nation should
possess, rs an tnalienable prerogative, the right
In Its people to lite and the pursuit Of happiness
Whereas, Tho K. of L. being an organization
of workers which seeks to obtain the full pro
lection Of Just and enlightened laws for thu
rights and interests OF the laboring masses o
this continent, Fl
Resolved, That this general assembly of oul
order afhrms the right Of the people of Irelant
to that national Independence for which the,
have struggled so steadfastiy and so long: tina
we desire to place on record an expression o
GUS acts by which England's rulers i,
Ireland are attempting. by the ~yiolatio,
of all principles of civilized government, t.
obtain home rule aud such other reforms as viii
supply every national safeguard to the interests
Of the classes Of that country. That we con
denim as disgraceful to any civilized government
the laws and systems of which the agriculture
workers of Ireland, being the great majority Q
the Inhabitants, are systematically reduced 10
condition bordering upon starvation, prior t
being evicted from their homes, and force,
under these conditions to bring to this ant
other lands what long years of tyranny and in
justice have reduced to a virtual pauper labor
and be 1t
Resolved, That we convey TO the people of Ire
land and their trusted leader, through Miohae
Davitt, the assurance of our heartfelt sympath
in their trials and suffering In their. country
which is that of Justice and humanity; that W
hail with pleasure the spirit Of determine
purpose with which they are struggling ugains